Battlefront 2 Will Bring Back Microtransactions 'In The Next Few Months'

When EA and DICE announced that they were freezing the sale of loot boxes in Star Wars: Battlefront 2 a day before its full release, there was always a caveat: one day, the loot boxes would be back. And in a chat with the Wall Street Journal, EA's chief finance officer has confirmed that day is not far away.

According to the Wall Street Journal's Sarah Needleman, EA's Blake Jorgensen has confirmed that Battlefront 2 will reintroduce microtransactions "in the next few months". In a snippet posted online (as the WSJ is typically paywalled), Jorgensen said DICE and EA would enable the microtransactions "when we think it's ready" but didn't specify if any changes had, or would, be made from what was seen before launch.

And according to Jorgensen, that conversation and controversy had an effect on sales. EA forecasted Battlefront 2 to sell a "conservative" 10 million copies for the Christmas quarter, but the Star Wars sequel sold only approximately 7 million copies instead. 28% of those copies, Needleman later confirmed, were sold digitally.

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